They used to declare you brain dead, then harvest your organs. Now they want to end life support, let you die, then declare brain death and start you (partially) back up!–then harvest your organs. Seems fishy to me. https://t.co/mch1GKh8jp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 26, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 10:47PM
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Biden approval rating on border security reaches lowest level to date (33%). … DHS chief Mayorkas’ hide-the-numbers strategy may be fooling fewer people than expected … https://t.co/OxHdNPr1EM #FoxNews https://t.co/jNwsNJKrts
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 26, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 09:51PM
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Biden approval rating on border security reachest lowest level to date (33%). … DHS chief Mayorkas’ hide-the-numbers atrategy may be fooling fewer people than expected … https://t.co/OxHdNPr1EM #FoxNews
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 26, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 09:32PM
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A lot of things other than money–e.g. culture–go into making a decent life. Doesn’t do a poor kid that much good if his single mom is above the poverty line thanks to a government check but he lives in a neighborhood of non-work, broken homes, bad schools, lawlessness and drug… https://t.co/DZGmfQDhUa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 25, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 12:50PM
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The requirements are supposed to encourage work and a culture of work, which is healthy for society in lots of non-money ways but is also the best long-term defense against money poverty. https://t.co/zcxEiUe1hy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 25, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 12:38PM
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5-minute Schlappenfreude break … https://t.co/DCr0hAqttl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 25, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 12:30PM
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The idea that the MSM will be receptive to a DeSantis comeback story seems to ignore the attitudes they’ve displayed so far. The old CW cycle may not be in effect. “Democrats, Team Trump, and the Dominant Media all want DeSantis to fail”–@MarkHalperin. https://t.co/B1rI65GA0U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 25, 2023
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May 25, 2023 at 12:12PM
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“TESLA stunning drop in brand popularity,” headlines Drudge. @Axios also emphasizes Tesla’s “reputational hit.” Tesla fell to No. 62 out of 100. On the other hand, Disney is worse, at No. 77–which seems shockingly low. But who’d want to talk about that? https://t.co/DRXO7UVGHa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 25, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 10:01PM
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Anyone ever see Buster Keaton and Michael Bloomberg in the same room? https://t.co/Lzz3DXBNyH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 05:29PM
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“falsely labeled as ‘tuck-friendly.'” You mean they weren’t tuck-friendly? I want my money back. https://t.co/TD6XhP63CZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 05:23PM
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This is pretty damning — “The horror of this wasted presidency” https://t.co/ZIJiK3giLN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 05:20PM
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* are ! https://t.co/TG7iuOdyO9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 01:46PM
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The requirements is supposed to encourage work and a culture of work, which is healthy for society in lots of non-money ways but is also the best long-term defense against money poverty. https://t.co/zcxEiUe1hy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 11:59AM
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His initial chart can be found here https://t.co/B5xoLfYxWN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 12:23AM
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Damage control from Wolfers (for his initial, nonsensical chart) https://t.co/uC2rV62Czn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 at 12:19AM
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Maybe he’ll ask RDS the tough questions! He’s playing Kaitlin Collins here, right? https://t.co/CmEpmXvEaU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 06:20PM
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And work requirements on Medicaid seem uniquely misguided, for the reasons given by Robert Rector here https://t.co/DHjuV1ESnL If able-bodied people refuse to work, we’re still going to give them medical care, as we should. So what does the requirement accomplish? Dems on solid… https://t.co/ZrV5aUPXt8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:55PM
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And work requirements on Medicaid seem particularly misguided, for the reasons given by Robert Rector here https://t.co/aHAyog2mAf If able-bodied people refuse to work, we’re still going to give them medical care, as we should. So what does the requirement accomplish? Dems on… https://t.co/Ky6z9XwT5S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:45PM
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That doesn’t necessarily mean all work requirements are a good idea. In a big recession when jobs aren’t available–which is not what we’re in now–you probably need to either relax them, so everyone at least could get food stamps, or offer a WPA-style guaranteed job. 6/x
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:38PM
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Yes, there were other causes of this “unprecedented” success at getting people into the work force–time limits, the EITC, a hot economy. But the work requirements were a big factor https://t.co/7gwv2kaTSS After this success it seems really hard to argue that work requirments… https://t.co/6VMjtIhABy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:31PM
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If you took those larger “demonstration” effects into account, would work requirements encourage work? Well, after Clinton’s 1996 requirements took effect “employment among never-married mothers, the most disadvantaged and least-educated subgroup of single mothers, grew from 44… https://t.co/iDDaJHUFPh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:27PM
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Even more important, this study and almost all the studies cited to (allegedly) show that work requirements don’t work ignore “demonstration effects.” They measure whether those on the rolls tend to work more, but don’t measure whether those not on the rolls are deterred from… https://t.co/6D5yExWTcT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:09PM
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Liberals object that total incomes didn’t increase, because the workers lost benefits–i.e. the result was “individuals’ replacing welfare and Food Stamp dollars with dollars from earnings and Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs).” But that is still “encouraging work,” Replacing… https://t.co/IzV48ldX00
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 03:06PM
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If you drill down on the citation for @paulkrugman’s assertion of “overwhelming evidence” that work requirements “have little effect in encouraging work,” you get to this big 2001 study. (https://t.co/RkBebSY6DM). It found: “[N]early all programs helped single parents work during… https://t.co/04k5gaCUCz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 02:58PM
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What if there were a giant mining company,** & it opposed every attempt to regulate the safety & impact of its mines, and a Gov. said “if you block this next safety reg, I will screw you 1st chance I get.” Is he unconstitutionally punishing them for their speech?
**Disney Mines
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 at 01:31PM
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